Marx, A French Passion

Jean-Numa Ducange is Professor of Contemporary History at the Université de Rouen Normandie and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is co-director of the journal Actuel Marx.Antony Burlaud is a doctoral student in political science at the Université de Paris 1 Sorbonne. He has published articles on French politics, Marxism and the history of the French left.

• Introduction: Writing the History of France’s MarxismsJean-Numa Ducange and Antony BurlaudPrologue: Karl Marx’s FranceAntony BurlaudPart 1 The Political Uses of Marx1 The Socialists’ Marx: The Guesde-Jaurès MomentJean-Numa Ducange2 The Socialists’ Marx: The Centenary of Marx’s Birth: A Challenge for the SFIORaymond Huard3 The Socialists’ Marx: The Blum EraThierry Hohl4 The Socialists’ Marx: From Guy Mollet to the PresentMathieu Fulla5 The Communists’ Marx: Karl Marx, Marxism and Marxism-Leninism, 1920–55Serge Wolikow6 The Communists’ Marx: A (Now-)Problematic Reference Point, 1956–2017Anthony Crézégut7 The Far Left’s Marx: The Politicisation of a Scholarly MarxismPatrick MassaPart 2 Translating, Editing, and Publishing Marx8 How to Translate Marx into French?Guillaume Fondu and Jean Quétier9 PCF Publishing Houses and Marx in France, 1920–60: From Politics to Scholarship?Marie-Cécile Bouju10 Marx’s Works in the ‘Bibliothèque de la Pléiade’: A Paradoxical LegitimationAude Le Moullec-Rieu11 A Golden Age for Marxist Publishing? The 1960s and 1970sJulien HagePart 3 Marx and the Social Sciences12 Marxism and Rationalism in the French Social Sciences (1930–60)Isabelle Gouarné13 Marx’s Peculiar Fate in French Economic ScholarshipThierry Pouch14 Sociology and MarxismGérard Mauger15 Marx and French HistoriansFrançois Dosse16 Marxism and Literary CriticismLucile Dumont, Quentin Fondu and Laélia VeronPart 4 Theoretical Hybridisations17 Marx and the Marxists, Children of France’s Eighteenth Century?Stéphanie Roza18 Marxism and Phenomenology in FranceAlexandre Feron19 The Structuralist MarxFrédérique Matonti20 Marx, an Avant-Gardist?Frédéric Thomas21 Post-’68 Intellectuals and Marx: A Fascination with ‘Farewells’Antoine Aubert22 Feminisms, Marxism, And Their Contentious LinksSylvie Chaperon and Florence RochefortPart 5 Seen from Elsewhere23 Marx Seen from the Right: When French Economists Discovered Marx’s CapitalJacqueline Cahen24 Marx Seen from the Right: Raymond Aron, Marxism and CommunismGwendal Châton25 French Catholics and Marxism, from the 1930s to the ‘1968 Moment’Denis Pelletier26 Marx in French-Speaking AfricaFrançoise Blum27 Learning Marxism in Paris: Chinese Students in France, 1919–25Kaixuan Liu and Wenrui BiReferencesIndex

“The editors have done an excellent job in making the chapters cohere, to show above all how arguments that flamed the French passion for and against Marxism were fierce: this affected the turn of political activism over several generations and across cultural disciplines in academia.”—Máire Fedelma Cross, French History